Legacy

Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award
The American Library Association (ALA) has introduced The Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement to recognize outstanding African American authors, illustrators or author/illustrators and practitioners for lasting and significant contributions to youth or young adult literature. Continue Reading…

The Virginia Hamilton Conference
The Virginia Hamilton Conference is the longest-running event in the United States to focus exclusively on multicultural literature for children and young adults. Continue Reading…

Virginia Hamilton Papers
The Library of Congress Manuscript Division houses a collection of Virginia Hamilton’s papers, given to the Library of Congress by her husband, Arnold Adoff. Continue Reading…

The Virginia Hamilton and Arnold Adoff Resource Center at The Bolinga Black Cultural Center, Wright State University
The Antioch School


Endowments